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BlackBerry Bold 9900 hitting T-Mobile on August 31st

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 18 Aug 2011 10:43 User comments (3)

BlackBerry Bold 9900 hitting T-Mobile on August 31st T-Mobile will get their first 4G BlackBerry on August 31st.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 will cost $300 after rebate with contract, making it more expensive than high-end Android devices like the HTC Sensation 4G.

Running on the BlackBerry 7 OS, with a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, the device is also RIM's thinnest phone ever, at 0.41 inches thick.

BlackBerry 7, the last OS before the much anticipated QNX OS, is expected to offer a significantly improved browsing experience and better HTML5 performance.

The device, despite being extremely expensive, has also been critically panned in early reviews, being called a "subtle upgrade" from the Bolds released in 2008 and 2009.

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3 user comments

118.8.2011 23:00

That's over 9000!

219.8.2011 01:04

Blackberry phones are obsolete to me as soon as they hit the market. Half the screen size and small physical keyboards. No thanks.

319.8.2011 17:22

Blackberrys are garbage.

They were once dominant, but iPhone and Android have killed them. Blackberry has fallen so far behind, they'll never catch up.

You'd have to be crazy or a Blackberry Zombie to buy one of these sure to fail devices.

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